Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-02
HISTORY OF TEE WEEK.

Jackson Marion was hanged at Bea-
trice, Nebraska, on the 18th, for the murder
Of John Cameron. Marion murdered John
Cameron in April, 1872. The men left Grass
hopper Falls, Kan, with a team Of horses
and wagon to work on the st. Joe& Den
yer railroad grade On May 8, Marion ar
rived alone at Beatrice, with the team and
wagon. Nothing more was heard of Gamer
On until March, 1873, when the remains of a
man with a bullet hole in the forehead
which We're afterward identified as those of
Cameron, We're found on the banks Of the
Blue river. Ten years more elapsed before
the suspected criminal was arrested. The
case has been in the courts for FIVE years.
and three times was the prisoner sentenced
to hang.
Thos. q. Harding was hanged at
Dillon, Mont, on the 25th. for the m lrder OF
Geo. Ferguson the Glendale stage-driver,
May 29, 1856. He protested his innocence to
Dec. 2, 1886, but had been several times res
pited. His last statement was: II amt
afraid to die, but hate to die such death
on account of an old mother and relatives
in Y rk State.''
At Hillyard, Mo-, on the 28th, a
broken rail on the Iron Mountain road
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sleeper to leave the track and turn over,
badly damaging both cars. Mrs Honey
cult held child in her arms, and being
thrown forward the child was killed and
she was badly injured, as were other pas
sengers.
A four story building inside the
Mich, penitentiary took fire from
and burned. The prisoners We're in their
cells and remained quiet being in no dan
ger from the fire. A two story building
also took fire and was partly burned
In the Peoples theater at ST Louis,
Sunday evening, an insubordinate gallery
boy gave a cry of fire, and the audience
became panic stricken and in the mad rush
for the doors persons were knocked down
and trampled upon. The police and ushers
succeeded in stopping the panic before any
one was killed.
The fremont Hotel in Wabash, Ind,
burned completely down Sunday morning
There were number Of narrow escapes by
the inmates, oil egress from the second and
third stories being cut off except by ladders
Loss, $4,000; insurance, S14,5UO.
At Sydney, N. S. W., on the 23rd
SIS men were entombed by an explosion in
the Bulls colliery. The accident occurred
in a run a mile and half from the mouth
The tunnel was blocked by the debris caused
blythe explosion.
The Commissioner Of Pensions in his
weekly report to the Secretary of the In
terror states that 2S1, l37 applications are
now before his Office for adjudication.
Claims are being filed at the rate of 600 q
week, and the final adjudication number is
about $500.
A boarding house near the famous
Colby mine ut Bessemer, Mich, took fire
Tuesday night and sixteen of twenty
miners lodging there were burned to DEATH
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller. the keepers of the
house barely escaped with their lives.
On the. 26th, two freight trains on
the Canadian Pacific road. one bound east
and the other bound west collided near
Franktown. Both trains were wrecked,
but no one was killed. The loss is 100000
5 The Democrats of Chicago on We'd
nesday, renominated Carter II. Harrison,
for Mayor by reclamation, and he accepted.
as any Chicago has ever experienced.
G. M. Thompson, late of Chardon,
Ohio, and more recently Of Racine, Wis,
was arrested. ct Muskegon, Mich, on the
charge OF bigany. He had one wife with
him and three more in Ohio
1t is intimated that X. II. Wade, SUI
perintendent of the Wabash system, will
succeed Judge Cooley as receiver. He is
claimed to be practical, efficient and sue
cessful railroad manager.
A discharged waiter of the Palmer
House, Chicago, H.. shot and killed the
head waiter, while the guests were at din
ner on Friday, and in the excitement the
murderer got away.
j. II. Hagget, a wealthy miner Of
San Francisco Cal, took his family, consist
ing of three boys and one girl out rowing.
The boat capsi2ed and all but one boy were
drowned.
At Palestine, Texas, on the 21st, the
Democratic convention to nominate a
successor to Senator Reagan, on the 272
ballot unanimously nominated William II.
Martin.
At Galveston, Texas, on the 23rd, a
spot sale OF s3O0,0o0 worth of cotton was
made. for export. This is the largest spot
sale ever made in Texas, if not in the South.
On Sunday, Hon. j. II. Treat, Judge
of the United States district court for the
southern district of Illinois, died at his resi-
dence in Springfield at the age of IS years
A monument to Maj. Gen. John
sedgwick will be completed in May and un-
yelled near Spottsylvania Court House, Va,
where he was killed.